Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Whatever code we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colourings, we create the possibility of new things entering the world. Not always great things, or even good things, but new things.
McKenzie Wark in "A hacker Manifesto":02
Good judgement is the result of experience ... Experience is the result of bad judgement.
Fred Brooks
What you’ve described, “The bottleneck in writing code isn’t in the writing of the code, it’s in understanding and conceptualising what needs to be done,” is common to all highly abstract programming languages. Writing Haskell, for example, involves an hour of meditation followed by the emission of a fold expression.
Jonathan Feinberg
No one hates software more than software developers.
Jeff Atwood
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
Dan Kaminsky
With all due respect John, I am the head of IT and I have it on good authority. If you type "Google" into Google, you can break the Internet.
Jen, "The IT Crowd"
The only constructive theory connecting neuroscience and psychology will arise from the study of software.
Alan J. Perlis
Fight code entropy.
John Carmack